Sarah Expresses Herself At My Birthday Dinner

And go here to Terry's blog Detritus to see what he was shooting.

It Was Like A Big Cherry Blossom Tossing Party In My Own Front Yard

Then they quickly turn brown, stick to everything and need to be removed with a chisel and a flat edged shovel. 

NE Couch And NE Grand

First Swing?

Look At That Amazing Baby In The Swing

Wall Detail, Fire Escape Shadow

Red 3

Convention Center Tower

Red Fire Escape, Trees, Tree Shadows On WallI

Where's the pay phone. I miss the blue pay phone.

Red Fire Escape, Blue Pay Phone

And the ever popular tree, wall and tree shadow.

Old Favorite Subject Matter, Trees, Tree Shadows, Wall

No Tree, No Grass

Tree And A Small Patch Of Grass

Road Work

Even More Reflections At The Convention Center

More Reflections At The Convention Center

12 Newspaper Stands And A Scooter.

Blue Stairs And Gold Handrail At Convention Center

Shiny Glass Doors, Convention Center

Photo-realist?

White Buckets In A Window

White Plastic Tank And Blue Sky

Chain Link Fence And The Usual Suspects

Happy Mother's Day!

Clara's first picnic.

Red Door, Blue Door And A Tree

Last picture on the way back. It contains the red door, the yellow handrail etc. etc. but it has so much more going on. The light is different. So many different shapes. More area, more color, balanced and random. Enough already, less reading, more viewing.

Yellow Handrail, Red Door, Black Door Surround, Beige Wall, Silver Stand Pipe

Alas dear reader (viewer) we're back to the non-narrative, less than spectacular subject matter, picture a day. Last week I parked in the SE Industrial area and walked up the the Convention Center to see Angie's fused glass work. This was facing me as I got out of the car. Tomorrow is the less abstract view on the way back to the car.

Road Trip: A Few Things Seen In Black And White

Plant lump in the sand dunes.

Stick, sand and shadow in the dunes.

Dark hills and evening sky in the Panamint Range.

Green hills and blue sky in black and white.

Boulders, hills, mountains and low clouds.

Lumpy rocks.

Twisty, crawly, lumpy rocks.

Boulders.

Just plain creepy.

Tufa and sky.

Tufa, plant and sky.

Road Trip: Day 7, 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM

Goose Lake Map

Goose Lake on the California/Oregon border. 

Picnic table, Summer Lake last picture of the road trip. Six, or so, more hours of driving and we're home. 

Road Trip: Day 6, 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Mono Lake

Top of a tall tufa tower.

Calcium rich springs bubble up into carbonate rich waters forming limestone around the springs.

Over the years the deposits build into towers and cities of towers.

In 1941 the city of Los Angeles began diverting the streams that fed the lake.

Over time the level of the lake dropped over 40 vertical feet. Sarah is in the lower right hand side.

Exposing tufa towers. That plant like thing is a plant. 

The Mono Lake Committee was formed in 1978, negotiations were held, agreements were made to raise the lake to a marginally healthy reasonable level.

Mono Lake, view from the driver's seat. That's the Peanut Butter Fairy below the rear view mirror.

Sierraville Post Office.

Restroom and bath at the Sierraville Country Store just down the street from the Post Office.

On to Alturas. 

In Alturas, view of the back of the Four Corners Market.